Crotalaria verrucosa L.
Description:
Family: FabaceaeDistribution:A weed of road sides and waste places.Native of tropics.50-90cm tall glabrous annual, much branched herb. Stems and branches angular.Stipules foliaceous. Leaves 3-12x2-7cm, ovate-rhomboid, obtuse, tapering at the base, pubescent beneath. Flowers 1.5-2cm lon bluish -purple or white in 8-15cm long terminal racemes. Bracts and bracteoles minute. Pods 3-5cm long, cylindric.
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- Embryophytes
- Tracheophyta (ferns)
- Spermatophytes (seed plants)
- Angiosperms (Dicotyledons)
- Eudicots
- Superrosids
- Rosids
- Fabales ("An order: peas, beans, and relatives")
- Fabaceae (legumes)
- Crotalaria (rattlebox)
- Crotalaria verrucosa (blue rattlesnake)
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